Sunlight Levels for Grade 3by Lynette Jones - Sunday, 26 October 2008, 01:47 AM
Level_of_Sunlight_Tour.kmz
Sunlight Levels
This is a pretty big file, but it will eventually download completely. 5.47Mb
I learned from viewing several different KMZ files that were listed on Moodle and then by the various classes who got done before I did. Whenever I hit a wall, I would go see what others had done and get ideas of how I needed to go forward. I still need to figure out how to do the Lewis and Clark map overlay. I thought that was very well done. I especially liked the ones that had assignments and questions for the students to ask. I did not get past the instructional stage.
My area that I am suppose to work on is science for 3rd Grade. I looked over the different core objectives for science and decided to work on how the amount of sun in one place changes the biosphere.
I intentionally stayed local to my area so the students would have a point of reference and would have an opportunity to take a field trip with their family to see this unusual and unique place in our desert climate.
I probably make my bubbles too wordy for third graders, that is something I need to work on.
I included at the end of my work a "Blue Marble - Seasons" activity. Be sure it is unchecked before you start the tour. Also, all extra layers, other than terrain need to be unchecked.
Then, after the tour is over, the children should be encouraged to view the BMNG tour on the large scale of watching Africa, (it has a play button at the top of the screen), and then they can move around the world to Ghost Falls and zoom in a little closer, below the picture and watch how the area around Ghost Falls turns white, brown, green, brown and white again with the changing of the seasons.
All of these things will reinforce the idea that the amount of sunlight effects the climate on the earth, even in local areas with which they are familiar.
This has been fun. It has been the most time consuming because it was the most difficult to learn. The difficulty had to do with the fact that Jing took so long to load and could not be saved to my computer, so if I needed to go back for review, I had to reload.
Wonderful experience and so-o-o-o fun!
Re: Sunlight Levels for Grade 3by Charles Graham - Thursday, 30 October 2008, 09:35 PM ||
Lynnette:
Good job on the tour. The only thing that I would change in the future before using it is to try and build in more inquiry into each place in the tour. Instead of telling students things at each spot - tell them some things and then have them research, observe, and discover other things.
Charles
Re: Sunlight Levels for Grade 3by Lynette Jones - Monday, 8 December 2008, 11:05 AM
Level_of_Sunlight_Tour.kmz
I did a little work on this today. Some improvement was made. I feel that this is something I want to improve a whole lot more and then give it to our third grade teachers. It is not quite yet on a professional level and I am anxious to make it so. I have found that by copy and paste of these forum messages to my wiki page, I can give the link on my wiki page.
Sunlight Levels
This is a pretty big file, but it will eventually download completely. 5.47Mb
I learned from viewing several different KMZ files that were listed on Moodle and then by the various classes who got done before I did. Whenever I hit a wall, I would go see what others had done and get ideas of how I needed to go forward. I still need to figure out how to do the Lewis and Clark map overlay. I thought that was very well done. I especially liked the ones that had assignments and questions for the students to ask. I did not get past the instructional stage.
My area that I am suppose to work on is science for 3rd Grade. I looked over the different core objectives for science and decided to work on how the amount of sun in one place changes the biosphere.
I intentionally stayed local to my area so the students would have a point of reference and would have an opportunity to take a field trip with their family to see this unusual and unique place in our desert climate.
I probably make my bubbles too wordy for third graders, that is something I need to work on.
I included at the end of my work a "Blue Marble - Seasons" activity. Be sure it is unchecked before you start the tour. Also, all extra layers, other than terrain need to be unchecked.
Then, after the tour is over, the children should be encouraged to view the BMNG tour on the large scale of watching Africa, (it has a play button at the top of the screen), and then they can move around the world to Ghost Falls and zoom in a little closer, below the picture and watch how the area around Ghost Falls turns white, brown, green, brown and white again with the changing of the seasons.
All of these things will reinforce the idea that the amount of sunlight effects the climate on the earth, even in local areas with which they are familiar.
This has been fun. It has been the most time consuming because it was the most difficult to learn. The difficulty had to do with the fact that Jing took so long to load and could not be saved to my computer, so if I needed to go back for review, I had to reload.
Wonderful experience and so-o-o-o fun!
Re: Sunlight Levels for Grade 3by Charles Graham - Thursday, 30 October 2008, 09:35 PM ||
Good job on the tour. The only thing that I would change in the future before using it is to try and build in more inquiry into each place in the tour. Instead of telling students things at each spot - tell them some things and then have them research, observe, and discover other things.
Charles
I did a little work on this today. Some improvement was made. I feel that this is something I want to improve a whole lot more and then give it to our third grade teachers. It is not quite yet on a professional level and I am anxious to make it so. I have found that by copy and paste of these forum messages to my wiki page, I can give the link on my wiki page.
Lynette